Mozilla Firefox is now the king of all browsers. --At least based on the web traffic data gathered from junauza.com and from a popular tech blog by known Windows Vista fanboy user Jeff Atwood. Firefox tops all other web browsers and most importantly kicked its archrival Internet Explorer out of the highest position.
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Thoughts on innovation on the desktop.
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While surfing around on Teh Intarwebs, I've read complaints from people that we're doing something radically new to the user. Some of those users seem to have problems with all that "radically new" stuff. Honestly, I don't think they have seen anything we *can* do yet.
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 released
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2 is released today. This alpha introduces KDE 4 - 4.1 beta 2, specifically - as the default version of KDE, and the latest development version of GNOME, 2.23.4. The kernel has also been updated to 2.6.26rc7. Mandriva warns that this is a true alpha, likely to contain many bugs related to the new version of KDE.
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Introducing the Linux user interface
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A few days ago, Walter Mossberg, writing in the Wall Street Journal, offered a verbal peek at the Mac user interface ... I'm not a Mac user, but from reading the article, it seems that the initial learning curve for switching from Windows XP to Linux, is less than that for switching to Macs.
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Introducing wattOS - A Lightweight Ubuntu!
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wattOS... the last frontier, the lightweight Ubuntu-based operating system is now here! Faster than anything else out there, wattOS is not just another Ubuntu clone, it is powered by the Openbox window manager, a standards compliant, fast, lightweight and extensible window manager.
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Enable Timed or Automatic Login on Ubuntu 8.04
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If you are the only user on your machine and you’d like to enable automatic user login at boot time this post will outline how.
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winetricks 20080710 released adds Schroedinger support!
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winetricks 20080710 released new verb ogg, fixes for firefox and divx. Schroedinger support! The big news is that Maarten now has a good directshow filter for the Schroedinger codec, and that it runs on Wine finally
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Linux HOWTO: Secure Your Data with PGP
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In today's time of rampant information crimes, including identity theft, security is more important to the average computer user than ever. This tutorial shows how you can use GnuPG to secure and verify data on your Linux box.
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Canonical and Valusoft bring Ubuntu plus support to Best Buy
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If you walk into a BestBuy this week you may spot some new software peeking out from the shelves. Yes, Ubuntu is now available as a spiffy boxed set in stores and on-line.
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For those "oops" moments: ext3undel
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The rm command can be a powerful tool for deleting data -- until you delete the wrong files or directories. Thankfully, the ext3undel utility can recover accidently removed data on ext3 filesystems.
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Top 4 New Feature Proposed for Fedora 10
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Since I have been writing about Ubuntu a lot recently, I thought I would look at some proposed features for Fedora 10. No features have been officially approved yet, so these are just proposals.
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Why I Am Leaning Toward Debian
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I am looking at various options for a Linux distribution these days. Some of them I discussed in my previous post on how to choose a Linux distribution. I also discussed CentOS. Here I would like to point out some factors why I am leaning toward Debian.
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Flashblock - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Flashblock is an extension [...] that prevents Macromedia Flash "movies" from automatically playing when a web page is first loaded. Flashblock is primarily used to prevent banner ads that play audio or video from starting, but also to reduce load time of banner-filled pages..." --
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
* http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
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Have linux, will travel
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I had a look around at the state of the art in Linuxes that boot from USB and I come across a little gem: DSL USB Embedded. DSL is Damn Small Linux and is an old 2.4 kernel and 50 megabytes of applications, a minimal system with hand-picked useful apps.
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